{"id":737,"date":"2010-11-26T11:58:40","date_gmt":"2010-11-26T11:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/?p=737"},"modified":"2010-11-26T11:58:40","modified_gmt":"2010-11-26T11:58:40","slug":"old-chips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/?p=737","title":{"rendered":"Old chips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know why, but for a couple years, I would remove the memory and processors from the machines we scrapped.I collected them all thinking about grouting them together to make nice floor tiles.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/chips_cpu.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-738\" title=\"chips_cpu\" src=\"http:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/chips_cpu-255x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"255\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/chips_cpu-255x300.jpg 255w, https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/chips_cpu-872x1024.jpg 872w, https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/chips_cpu.jpg 1090w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 255px) 100vw, 255px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last time I counted, there were 130 processors. Mostly Sun Sparc and Pentium.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/chips_ram.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-739\" title=\"chips_ram\" src=\"http:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/chips_ram-179x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"179\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/chips_ram-179x300.jpg 179w, https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/chips_ram-612x1024.jpg 612w, https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/chips_ram.jpg 766w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 179px) 100vw, 179px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And here is 1.2 GB of RAM spread across over 300 memory modules. Mainly 30 and 72 pin SIMMs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/chips_desk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-740\" title=\"chips_desk\" src=\"http:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/chips_desk-300x179.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/chips_desk-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/chips_desk-1024x613.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/chips_desk.jpg 1603w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And this is what they look like when spread all over Matt deChav&#8217;s desk. You can&#8217;t see the keyboard and mouse which are buried under them all. I don&#8217;t want to take them to Cambridge, so hopefully he will be able to find a good home for them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know why, but for a couple years, I would remove the memory and processors from the machines we scrapped.I collected them all thinking about grouting them together to make nice floor tiles. Last time I counted, there were 130 processors. Mostly Sun Sparc and Pentium. And here is 1.2 GB of RAM spread [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=737"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":742,"href":"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions\/742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}